Fiona Hile

Why are there so many poems about goldfish?

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Why are there so many poems about goldfish?

It’s not as if they speak to us of some tequilamoonscape lost to sense, though the telepathyof our own hand-coded secrets might. PythonTechnology integrates our systems moreeffectively, overruns us like mice. To bolta metal bar to a sandstone wall and fear thesheets tied end-to-end will cornuscate a sheer

drop defibrillates louche timefields within the shrillcarapace of our deep down landlords. Inevitably webesot them and find no end to love but not to truth.Arguing for the personal address you suggestyour face in a fish tank bobbing like an appleI can’t just get my teeth around. Swimminghappily in your broad sea of alcohol,

words that sound similar but are spelt differentlystalk you like Dentistry. You want to turn themon creates a sequel for fibroid differentiation,the whippet of rotting floorboards and bilgecocktails Makes like James Bond in that filmabout diving underwater / leaving your first loveto drown in a rough cut fundraising trailer

while all the domesticated carp you can eat stillchair you like fields of electro-con workers, theirlong blond hair and super-ramified orange overallsSpread Eagled Energy Green spelling I KNOWWHAT YOU LIKE, daisies and hydrangeas and allsorts of flowery things like that.

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Fiona Hile

Fiona Hile is the author of a chapbook, The Family Idiot, and a full-length collection, Novelties, which was awarded the 2014 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry. In 2012 she won the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize and was awarded second place in the Overland 2012 Judith Wright Poetry Prize. She is a recipient of the University of Melbourne Felix Myer Scholarship for Literature and is currently completing a PhD on generic innovation in the work of Michel Houellebecq and JM Coetzee at the University of Melbourne. She is the editor of a Cordite electronic chapbook of poetic collaborations, Wandering Through the Universal Archive. Her ongoing commentary on Australian poetic communities is regularly updated at https://jacket2.org/commentary/fiona-hile.